DEVELOPMENT

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

AND

LANGUAGE

BY

ALFRED H. WELSH, A.M.

MEMBER OF VICTORIA INSTITUTE, THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN
AUTHOR OF "ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH, COMPLETE RHETORIC,'

ETC.

VOLUME I

To read pas-

All profitable study is a silent disputation - -an intellectual gymnastic; and the most
improving books are precisely those which most excite the reader..
sively, to learn,-is, in reality, not to learn at all.-SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON

TENTH THOUSAND

CHICAGO

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY

1888